Beaver Press | 1913-02-21 | Page 7 | Check on the Quack Grass

CHECK ON OTHE QUACK GRASS serious menace lo Is eradicated by C ceaseless ageless e cultivation how got rid hid of 61 peat Pest cy rt a NE one man in our neighborhood bought a farm several years ago that w ww badly infested with quack grass the uplands were free from the pest peat but about twenty acres acrea of creek bottom land grew scarcely anything else the coarie fo former Arie owne rhad let these bottoms in hay for many years although qt late he ha had been mowing scarcely anything but quick quack tho the other man however put the entire twenty under the plow wear ing ine out a good many share points in tearing up ithe ad rough sod and more than ondo saying paying things then ho he I 1 planted corn after having first bar rowed and disked and disked and harrowed a great many of the quack roots were killed ceaseless cultivation was kept up until tho the corn was too tall to admit a cultivator and the field was gone gon d over ofia once with tho hoe in the fall the corri corn wa was s rather i weedy when cut still it was not n ot half bd if bad As the bottom was waa extremely fertile it was plowed harrowed and disked again and ana tho the corix corn wash was put in once onca more ohp same s are old stary of cultivation and hoeing was repeated and even a larger crop of corn was the result with less quack than the fall before the bottom looked good for yet another pt of corn cor jao far the aitra time fline the scratching oillie of the earth continued V by that time the quack was I 1 pretty well under control and it was no iunger a serious menace to the tha crop 1 I